"Ten days after reliever Matt Capps landed on the free-agent market, he's down to deciding whether he wants to be a closer for the Washington Nationals or a setup man and fallback closer candidate for the Cubs.

Agent Paul Kinzer said Tuesday that Capps plans to confer with his family and decide between competing offers from the Cubs and Nationals by Wednesday night.

"Matt is really comfortable with those two [teams] at this point,'' Kinzer said. "When it comes right down to it, he has to decide whether he's going to a place where he's definitely going to be the closer, or he's a setup man with a chance to maybe close.''

Capps, 26, amassed 66 saves from 2007 through 2009 in Pittsburgh.

But the right-hander's ERA spiked from 3.02 to 5.80 last season, and he became a free agent when the Pirates declined to offer him a contract at the Dec. 12 tender deadline. Kinzer said 16 teams expressed interest in Capps once he hit the open market."